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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
Sharique Hasan in a recent working paper. Their field research shows that the highest quality ideas are generated by people open to new experiences engaging with extroverted peers. In 2014, the researchers headed to New Delhi to study the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
and saying, you know, this entity or this industry or whatever caused this problem and they're not doing enough to solve it. And I think the reality is even traditional sources of energy, those businesses need to play a role in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
to live, work, or play in a dingy or glary space?” The oldest family-owned and -operated lighting business in the nation — its doors opened in 1895 — Kirlin proclaims its products are “100% designed, manufactured, and assembled in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge, and expertise — the emerging... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the vast majority of teachers of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
for her opening address at the tenth anniversary Social Enterprise Conference on March 1. The daylong event, heralded in advance by Forbes as one of the top business gatherings for 2009, was organized by students from HBS and the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
software start-up straight out of Yale. She was running the company by the time she left for HBS in 1992. After HBS, she helped launch Open Market, an Internet start-up that made e-commerce software, where... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman and CEO of Segway LLC and creator of the Segway Human Transporter.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
a revolution. A wave of companies led by gutsy entrepreneurs are unlocking opportunities that fire the imagination and open new business models. No, it’s not hotels on Mars or day trips to orbit (yet), but it’s an awe-inspiring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
faces. Some of them are Americans who grew up here, but many are foreign students. In the past, most of them stayed to enjoy the benefits of our open society, but now many are going home. Since September 11, 2001, many have trouble... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
international order. "We in the developing world have to go out and make our own way," he says. "We can't wait for doors to be opened for us — we must open them ourselves." Taking a Position of Power John W.... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
speedily sourcing garments and apparel for customers in the West. Its solid reputation is based on its ability to meet required specifications at a competitive price. Fung believes his company’s levelheaded approach to the IT revolution... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
been at for the last 50 years. It starts opening doors to rationalize a new economy that isn’t as dependent on oil as the economy we created. What steps should we take now to prepare for an oil shortage? You’ve really got to go to a sort... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
The Lincoln anchored off the coast of Perth. Australia is not a major supply point, so we sourced all over the area, from Guam to Singapore. On some days the seas were so rough that we couldn’t receive supplies from shore. A C-5 cargo... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
THE CHALLENGE: Ana Shukla shares advice on securing venture capital. Karen Kerrigan and Brigitte Baumann (far left, center) stressed the importance of mentors and networks. As a first-time entrepreneur, Ana Shukla launched a marketing-automation View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
fuel and lost business included—to be $124 billion annually, or about $2,000 per commuter. Mistele and INRIX aren’t in the business of delivering bad news, however. They have been trying to do something about traffic congestion since the Kirkland, Washington–based... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
one example of how Chinese companies are looking at their own environment and finding interesting opportunities that someone in the United States wouldn’t even consider.” Key Themes Since the opening of the HBS Asia-Pacific Research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
underground hacker marketplaces. Credit card numbers—from premium cards, some offered with money-back guarantees if they don’t work—go for as little as $9. That’s just one segment of a booming hacker market: Attempts to knock a particular website offline can cost... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai